LMAO.
And here I thought my youngest's History teacher was a little dumb for telling the kids that flat-earthers never existed and nobody ever thought the world was flat back in Columbus' days. That it was all a myth and we should give people more credit.
OP is here, now. Not a hundred years ago. Now. Using satellite communications and everything.
430 pages worth of posts.... Not even ICO posts with "great project good luck" empty comments don't get as many replies.
This is amazing.
Satellites are just rocket launched weather balloons that orbit above us in a circle. The biggest object they can hold aloft is a cubesat and most just hold a reflector they bounce a signal off.
If you want sauce all over your face just go look up "Project Echo" and "The Big Bounce" (1960).